"Citing a Minerals Management ...Service report, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said there were 117 failures of blowout preventers during a two-year period in the late 1990s on the outer continental shelf of the United States"

I can't believe that we allow BP to tell American scientists that they cannot estimate the rate of oil flow from this leak. This is a new low point in the obscene protectionism of corporations that we have seen develop over time.

There are rivers of oil 10 miles long underwater and BP is like, move on, nothing to see here.

May as well. Alabama fans say that they are entitled to offer benefits to his girlfriend because Nick Saban had a pre-existing relationship with her mother. I imagine there are plenty of pre-existing relationships at LSU with Collin's family if the NCAA refuses to take action on this type of recruiting.

Let the bidding begin, just do it through a third party with a pre-existing relationship. The REC has been doing that ever since Nick set foot in Tuscaloosa.